Charo
Charo was last recorded in 1981, when 9 babies were given it; 244 Americans have been recorded with it between 1966 and 1981 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Charo by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Charo mean?
Wiktionary, Spanish section
Charo is “a diminutive of the female given name Rosario”
A (diminutive) of Rosario.
/ˈt͡ʃaɾo/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Spanish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Charo?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #6,886, in 1981; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
50 babies in 1976, the peak
Charo peaked in 1976, when 50 babies were given it (44 girls, #2,000 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1981 | 9 | #6,886 | 5.4 |
| 1980 | 14 | #5,015 | 8.4 |
| 1979 | 18 | #4,069 | 11.2 |
| 1978 | 18 | #3,940 | 11.8 |
| 1977 | 36 | #2,430 | 23.5 |
| 1976 | 44 | #2,000 | 30.0 |
| 1975 | 14 | #4,389 | 9.6 |
| 1974 | 19 | #3,448 | 12.9 |
| 1973 | 16 | #3,801 | 11.0 |
| 1972 | 12 | #4,561 | 7.9 |
Every recorded year (14)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1971 | 14 | #4,144 | 8.4 |
| 1970 | 11 | #4,797 | 6.3 |
| 1969 | 8 | #5,522 | 4.7 |
| 1966 | 5 | #6,718 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Charo a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 244 Americans recorded as Charo, 98% are girls and 2% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Charo: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Charo, and how old are they?
An estimated 230 Americans named Charo and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 50 years old and half are between 49 and 53. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 520 people named Charo (492 women and girls, 28 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 234 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.2 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Charo rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 3,476 babies since 1880, Charo is the fifth most given (7.0% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Charo
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Charo and names like it
- Compare Charo and ChariBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sCharo peaked in 1976.
- South Carolina’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Charo since 1910.
- Spanish namesWiktionary’s origin for Charo: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1976The year the most babies were named Charo.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Charo alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with CMost given first.